ROADBLOCKED Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

roadblocked

verb

past tense of roadblock

as in blocked

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Now a district judge has blocked the regulation adopted by the Postal Service to implement the order.

— Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Deion Sanders and the Buffs stunned Georgia Tech in Thursday night's opener, 14-13, thanks to a late touchdown and blocked field goal in the waning seconds.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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Sacramento police said investigators were working to detain a suspect barricaded inside a residence with a possible firearm on Tuesday night.

— Richard Ramos, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
As a woman inside walked out to agents in the garage, prosecutors say Dowen barricaded himself upstairs and weighed his options.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026

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Iran’s proxies in the region, the Houthis, have since blockaded another strait – the Bab-al-Mandeb – challenging Saudi Arabia’s ability to export oil through that alternate route.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
During the early nineteen-eighties, when Paul Volcker, the chair of the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates to twenty per cent in the face of rampant inflation, furious farmers blockaded the Fed’s headquarters with their tractors.

— John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

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But her condition has deteriorated significantly in the months since she was first arrested in Miami-Dade County on May 5 and booked on a misdemeanor battery charge.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026
Weatherall was arrested in connection with the incident, per the outlet, Fox Carolina and Greenville County public arrest records.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 30 Aug. 2026

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Indeed, Iran’s economy in the run-up to the start of the war was mired in surging inflation, according to the International Monetary Fund.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
But the project has been mired in disputes between the two countries and internal conflict between the central government in Iraq and the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026

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West Ham also retained club captain Jarrod Bowen, Taty Castellanos and Konstantinos Mavropanos, while Arne Engels, Manor Solomon, Joel Piroe and Divine Mukasa were their headline summer additions.

— Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Impressively, Fever retained the Dax's single-channel front ABS system by machining custom wheel-speed sensor discs and fabricating mounts for both the ABS module and the factory tip-over sensor.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026

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